Turner v. . New Bern’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2018
20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Barbier v. Connolly · Hadacheck v. Sebastian · Camfield v. United States · Ohio Oil Company v. State of Indiana · Miller v. Wilson
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is primarily for the legislative body clothed with the police power to decide when and under what circumstances such regulations as the one in question are necessary and essential, and its determination in this regard, in view of its better knowledge of all the circumstances and of the presumption that it is action with a due regard for the rights of all parties, will not be disturbed by the courts unless it can be plainly seen that the regulation has no relation to the purposes *Page 14 above stated, but is a clear invasion of personal or property rights, under the police power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ahoskie v. . Moye““A statute enacted within the police power will not be adjudged invalid because an omitted subject. . . might have been properly included.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.